Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.